DiscipleDeck
Get started
Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 23:34

Ezekiel 23:34

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Thou shalt break the shards thereof. The picture of the desolate adulteress becomes yet more terrible. Like a forlorn and desperate castaway, she does shameful execution on herself; breaks her cup, and completes the work of mutilation in its most terrible form.

That is the doom decreed for her, because she had forgotten her true husband and the love of her espousals. Revised Version gives gnaw the shards thereof, painting yet more vividly the despair of the outcast.

The Daily Devotional

One devotional. Every morning.

The full reading, the passage behind it, and where to go deeper — in your inbox before the day starts. No ads, ever.

We'll send one email to confirm it's really you. Unsubscribe in one tap, any time.

Continue tomorrow

Turn Bible study into a daily habit

Read today's devotional, save your progress, and receive a gentle daily reminder.

Read today's devotionalSave my progress

Recommended reading

More for Ezekiel 23:34

Continue with other commentaries and DiscipleDeck content connected to this verse, chapter, or topic.

Other commentaries

Ezekiel 23 — OverviewEzekiel 23 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis long chapter (as before ch. xvi. and xx.) is a history of the apostasies of God's people from him and the aggravations of those apostasies under the similitude of corporal whoredom and adultery. Here the…Ezekiel 23 — OverviewEzekiel 23 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeEzekiel 23:1, The whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah; Ezekiel 23:23, Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers; Ezekiel 23:36, The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both; Ezekiel 23:45, and shews their judgments.Ezekiel 23 — OverviewEzekiel 23 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn this chapter the idolatries of Israel and Judah are represented under the metaphor of two harlots, and their lewdness. These harlots are described by their descent; by the place and time in which they committed their…Ezekiel 23:1-49Ezekiel 23:1-49 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel, after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1-63; but with a marked variation. There we have the history of one harlot, s.c. of Israel in its…Ezekiel 23:1-49Ezekiel 23:1-49 · The Pulpit CommentaryInexcusable infidelity. What it must have cost the patriotic prophet to write this chapter passes our power to imagine. The Jew was naturally and pardonably proud of his country and of its history. No thoughtful Jew…Ezekiel 23:22-35Ezekiel 23:22-35 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the devil, had…
commentaryRecommended resourceExplore this resource connected to the verse you are reading.commentaryRecommended resourceExplore this resource connected to the verse you are reading.commentaryRecommended resourceExplore this resource connected to the verse you are reading.devotion The Eye RollCynicism feels like wisdom, but it's really just scar tissue on your soul. It takes zero effort to be a critic, but it takes massive courage to keep hoping. Learn how to get your wonder back today. 👇DiscipleDeckdevotionThe Hot CoalHolding a grudge is like holding a burning coal waiting to throw it at someone else—you are the one getting burned. Drop the coal today. Here is how to truly forgive and heal. 👇DiscipleDeckdevotionThe Green PoisonEnvy is drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. If you spend your life looking at someone else's lane, you will crash in your own. Learn the ultimate cure for comparison today. 👇DiscipleDeckdevotionThe BalloonPride makes you look big but leaves you fragile, like a balloon. Humility makes you look small but makes you solid, like a rock.DiscipleDeckdevotionThe Bankrupt and the BillionaireThe Gospel is a trade. Jesus took your debt; you got His fortune. He got the hell He didn't deserve so you could get the heaven you didn't earn.DiscipleDeck